While there is some flexibility in the American Southwest “posole” interpretation of Mexico’s dish that was first documented by Fray Bernardino in the 1500s during the Spanish conquest of Mexico according to Larousse Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Gastronomia Mexicana. It is a completely different dish.”īig food media, listen up: Adding black beans and lime juice to things do not automatically make it “Mexican.” Alexandra Neill commented about her unabashed disappointment in Garten, “This is not pozole and it is sad to see such a great cook not informing herself first before preparing a dish. I'm Mexican and sorry this is everything less posole.” Even our allies weren’t letting Garten slide for this one, “I'm not mexican, but this is NOT pozole!” said Eileen Hidalgo. Other popular comments on the video that now has over 1.3 million views for all the wrong reasons range from funny ones like, “This posole is the equivalent to a taco from Taco Bell” by Bea Tichi DelaCruz to devastating ones, like Vicky Martinez’s: “Ina Garten I can say I'm your #1 fan but with this recipe you broke my heart. Some, like Instagram user have taken to using the slogan adopted by many other frustrated Latinx who are tired of their culture being appropriated-and capitalized on. The date of the video post coincides with the kickoff of the biggest Hispanic Heritage Month in recent memory. For our first installment, we set a famous Food Network cooking show host straight on the institution that is pozole.īeloved Food Network host Ina Garten is the latest casualty in the precarious world of food personalities suddenly crashing and burning when cooking Mexican food.Ī cooking video that was posted on the Food Network’s page on Facebook last Friday showing Garten adding yellow bell peppers, black beans, tortilla chips, and green salsa to pozole has been causing anger and frustration for many Latinx followers. In this emerging column, we make an exception to our generally positive posts and call things out for the greater good. Welcome to Snapper Fridays, a new column at L.A.
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